Dell Precision WorkStation 210, User Manual

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Installing Drives 9-1
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Your Dell computer has eight drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see
Figure 9-1):
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The externally accessible drive bays at the front of the computer consist of one
3.5-inch drive bay (dedicated to a 3.5-inch slimline diskette drive) and three
5.25-inch bays that can hold up to three half-height, 5.25-inch devices—typically
tape drives or CD-ROM drives. Alternately, 3.5-inch devices can be installed in the
5.25-inch bays using adapters available from Dell.
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The four-bay hard-disk drive cage below the externally accessible bays can hold
up to four 1-inch or up to two 1-inch and t wo 1.6-inch hard-disk drives installed
vertically. The drives must be either e nhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE)
hard-disk drives or small computer system interface (SCSI) hard-disk drives .
The next three sections contain information that you will need in several of the
installation procedures described later in the chapter. The remaining sections of this
chapter cover each type of drive installation.
NOTE: In all of the following procedures,
left
and
right
refer to your left and right as
you face the
front
of the computer.